Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights

ISBN-13: 9780815323495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 262 str.

Kimball King

Opis

This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies. It is the ideal reference for the classroom, for independent research, and for a general overview of the field.

Recenzje

"...this is a useful and very reasonably priced introduction to an attractive series, which will undoubtedly tempt you to delve further into the life of at least one of the playwrights covered." -- Manchesteronstage.co.uk
"The quality of each essay is high; the opinions and observations are insightful, and the writing is accessible to the persistent undergraduate or theater practitioner." -- Library Journal, Larry Schwartz, Minnesota State University, Moorhead.
"The present work...would be of most value to students, actors, directors, and dramaturgs and as supplementary reading for dramatic literature courses. Recommended to undergraduate collections..." -- Library Journal, Larry Schwartz, Minnesota State University, Moorhead.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Who Wrote “John Arden's” Plays?, Dace Tish; Chapter 2 Ayckbourn's Theatricality, Dukore Bernard F.; Chapter 3 Empire of Light: Luminosity and Space in Beckett's Theater, Gruber William E.; Chapter 4 The Romans in Britain: Aspirations and Anxieties of a Radical Playwright, Gross Robert F.; Chapter 5 Monsters and Heroines: Caryl Churchill's Women, Merrill Lisa; Chapter 6 More Real than Realism: Horton Foote's Impressionism, Wright Tim; Chapter 7 Negotiating History, Negotiating Myth: Friel among His Contemporaries, Gleitman Claire; Chapter 8 Hedda's Children: Simon Gray's Anti-heroes, Burkman Katherine H.; Chapter 9 Romanticism and Reaction: Hampton's Transformation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Barb Barbé Hammer Stephanie; Chapter 10 Playing with Place: Some Filmic Techniques in the Plays of David Hare, Russell Brown John; Chapter 11 Master Class and the Paradox of the Diva, Mazer Cary M.; Chapter 12 Phallus in Wonderland: Machismo and Business in David Mamet's American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross, Zeifman Hersh; Chapter 13 A Place at the Table: Hunger as Metaphor in Lillian Hellman's Days to Come and Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother, Ginter Brown Linda; Chapter 14 The Personal, the Political, and the Postmodern in Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Déjàvu, Quigley Austin E.; Chapter 15 The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, The Lover, and The Homecoming: A Revisionist Approach, Wellwarth George E.; Chapter 16 What's Wrong with this Picture? David Rabe's Comic-Strip Plays, Zinman Toby Silverman; Chapter 17 The Artistic Trajectory of Peter Shaffer, Gianakaris C. J.; Chapter 18 Great Expectations: Language and the Problem of Presence in Sam Shepard's Writing, Wilson Ann; Chapter 19 Funny Money in New York and London: Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn, Cohn Ruby; Chapter 20 Broadway Babies: Images of Women in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim, Hanson Laura; Chapter 21 From Zurich to Brazil with Tom Stoppard, Londré Felicia Hardison; Chapter 22 David Storey's Aesthetic of “Invisible Events, Hutching.s William; Chapter 23 Female Laughter and Comic Possibilities: Uncommon Women and Others, Chirico Miriam M.; Chapter 24 Vision and Reality: Their Very Own and Golden City and Centre 42, Barker Clive; Chapter 25 August Wilson's Folk Traditions, Harris Trudier; Chapter 26 The Artist in the Garden: Theatre Space and Place in Lanford Wilson, Adler Thomas P.;

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